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- 3821: William Lyon Mackenzie
- ... gambling. On July 17, 1814, his illegitimate son was born. What he had done to Isabel Reid, mother of his son, was a sinful deed. ("Mackenzie" 1976: 407) He did not assume responsibility for the child; he abandoned his son and his mother-Elizabeth. ("Mackenzie" 1976: 407) This exceptional horrid flaw in his character was carried on into his career later on as a mayor. Mackenzie was named Toronto's first ...
- 3822: William Henry Gates
- William Henry Gates, III was born October 28, 1955 in Seattle, Washington. He was the middle child of three born to William and Mary Gates. ATrey,@ as he was called because of the III, was sent to a private school by his father, a lawyer, and mother, a former teacher now on ...
- 3823: Washington Irving
- ... who had a great effect on the Romantic era was Washington Irving. Some called Irving the first real American writer. Washington Irving was born April 3, 1783, in New York City. He was the eleventh child of Sarah William Irving. His father was a strict man, a merchant and deacon in the Presbyterian Church. He started school at the age of four, but he never took it seriously. Even when he ...
- 3824: Woodrow Wilson
- Diseases need heroes: men or women who have triumphed despite the disease. For the child with polio, one could always point to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who campaigned on leg braces to become governor of New York and then president of the United States. For epilepsy, there is always Joan of ...
- 3825: Virginia Woolf
- ... poetry depends on intellectual freedom. She even quotes Sir Arthur Quiler-couch who wrote, "The poor poet has not in theses days, nor has had for two hundred years, a dog s chance a poor child in England has little more hope than had the son of an Athenian slave to be emancipated into that intellectual freedom which great writers are born (740)." So if it is so hard for women ...
- 3826: Rocky Marciano
- On Sept. 1, 1923 Mr. and Mrs. Pierino Marchegiano of Brockton, MA became the proud parents of a lively twelve pound baby boy. The child was named Rocco Marchegiano, but the world would one day know him as the legendary boxer Rocky Marciano. When "bambino Rocco" was 18 months of age, he contracted pneumonia. Although the infection nearly killed him ...
- 3827: Really In The Works Of John Grisham
- ... to become one of the best selling authors of the decade. John Grisham was born on February 8, 1955, in Jonesboro, Arkansas. His mother was a homemaker, and his father a construction worker. As a child, Grisham wanted to play either professional baseball or professional baseball. He gave up the football dream early, but the baseball dream lasted through college. After a few years of trying his baseball career out, he ...
- 3828: Rubens
- ... Steen, his country residence. During this final decade he continued executing commissions for the Habsburg monarchs of Austria and Spain. More and more, he also painted pictures of personal interest, especially of his wife and child and of the Flemish countryside. The concerns of Rubens's late style, and indeed of his whole career, are summarized in The Judgment of Paris (circa 1635-37, National Gallery, London). In this painting voluptuous ...
- 3829: Ronald Wilson Reagan
- ... Recovery Tax Act. This enacted tax cuts that benefited upper-income taxpayers and large corporations. He also made cuts in spending for job training, college loans, food and medical programs, payments for those with disabilities, child daycare centers, and centers for the elderly. Reagan relaxed environmental and safety standards and helped struggling savings and loan institution. He also believed that labor unions interfered with economic efficiency. When 11,800 members of ...
- 3830: Richard The Lion Hearted
- ... of Sancho VI, King of Navarre Offspring: None Richard Plantagenet (also known as "Richard the lion hearted") was born on September 8th in the year 1157 CE. Although born in Oxfordshire England, Richard was a child of Aquitaine a part of Southern France. His language was not English and throughout his life he spoke little of it. He had four brothers and three sisters, the first of which died at a ...
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